1943.52.141: Circular Mirror with Decoration of Four Long-Tailed Birds, Perhaps Phoenixes, against a Ground of Volutes
Mirrors
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.52.141
- Title
- Circular Mirror with Decoration of Four Long-Tailed Birds, Perhaps Phoenixes, against a Ground of Volutes
- Classification
- Mirrors
- Work Type
- mirror
- Date
- 5th-3rd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204304
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze
- Dimensions
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Diam. 20.1 cm (7 15/16 in.)
Weight: 550 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York (April 1936)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.52.141
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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